{"id":151514,"date":"2018-08-09T16:32:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T14:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=151514"},"modified":"2018-08-09T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T14:32:57","slug":"zoveel-kinderen-met-een-lego-droom-maar-voor-niek-kwam-hij-uit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/nl\/zoveel-kinderen-met-een-lego-droom-maar-voor-niek-kwam-hij-uit\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoveel kinderen met een Lego-droom, maar voor Niek kwam hij uit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoeveel kinderen dromen er niet van? Spelend met hun Lego-blokjes, de ene na de andere fantasie werkelijkheid makend, hoe mooi zou het zijn om ooit bij dat grote merk te mogen werken? Of, nee, beter nog, zelf nieuwe Legoconstructies te mogen ontwerpen&#8230;? Maar bij het klimmen der jaren spat de droom uiteen omdat er andere liefhebberijen komen. Of we moeten ons neerleggen bij de onhaalbaarheid ervan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_151524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151524\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ioplus.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-15.40.58.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-151524\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.ioplus.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-15.40.58-300x300.png\" alt=\"Lego Voltron\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lego Voltron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tja, zo gaat dat voor bijna iedereen. Maar niet voor Eindhovenaar Niek van Slagmaat. Hij mag zich, na een stormachtige carri\u00e8re bij Lego, nu de trotse ontwerper van <a href=\"https:\/\/za.ign.com\/voltron-defender-of-the-universe-1\/122273\/news\/lego-voltron-set-release-date-announced\"><em>Voltron Defender of the Universe<\/em><\/a> noemen.\u00a0 De creatie kwam eind juli op de markt en zet Niek op een mooie plek in de Eindhovense makers-traditie. In onderstaande video legt hij, samen met graphic designer\u00a0Mark Tranter uit wat daar zoal bij komt kijken. Zodat wij nu ook weten hoe lastig het is om werkbare schouderstukken te fabriceren als er al zoveel legoblokjes &#8211; en dus gewicht &#8211; in de armen zitten.<\/p>\n<p>Voor Niek stond al vroeg vast hoe hij zijn toekomst zou gaan invullen. &#8220;Toen ik 3 of 4 was, wist ik het al: ik wilde Lego-designer worden. En dat is nooit veranderd. Om die reden ben ik ook industrial design aan de TU Eindhoven gaan studeren. Dat gaf me de mogelijkheid om bij Lego stage te gaan lopen en op die manier kon ik er uiteindelijk ook in dienst komen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hier zijn voorlopige hoogtepunt:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LEGO Voltron Defender of the Universe Designer Video Review - LEGO Ideas 2018 set #21311\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a8h3N5RyCvE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoeveel kinderen dromen er niet van? Spelend met hun Lego-blokjes, de ene na de andere fantasie werkelijkheid makend, hoe mooi zou het zijn om ooit bij dat grote merk te mogen werken? Of, nee, beter nog, zelf nieuwe Legoconstructies te mogen ontwerpen&#8230;? Maar bij het klimmen der jaren spat de droom uiteen omdat er andere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1568,"featured_media":503988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1039],"tags":[90529,90532,25137,1063],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-151514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl-nl","tag-lego-nl","tag-niek-van-slagmaat-nl","tag-tu-eindhoven-nl-nl","tag-tue-nl"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bart Brouwers","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/brewbart\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-09-at-16.06.45.png","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/nl\/category\/sustainability-nl-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sustainability<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sustainability<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/nl\/category\/sustainability-nl-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Lego<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/nl\/category\/sustainability-nl-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Niek van Slagmaat<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/nl\/category\/sustainability-nl-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">TU Eindhoven<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/nl\/category\/sustainability-nl-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">TU\/e<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Lego<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Niek van Slagmaat<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">TU Eindhoven<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">TU\/e<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 8 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 9, 2018","modified":"Updated on August 9, 2018"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 9, 2018 4:32 pm","modified":"Updated on August 9, 2018 4:32 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151514"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=151514"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=151514"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=151514"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=151514"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=151514"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=151514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}